RQ08320 - Project Manager/Leader - Senior

About the job RQ08320 - Project Manager/Leader - Senior

Description

Note: This contract will require the consultant to work from the office location 3 days per week with the remaining 2 days being worked remotely.

Responsibilities

Provides project management on large scale, complex, high profile and high risk projects for OPS I⁢ initiatives.

Ensures project deliverables meet clients business requirements on time, scope and budget, with a focus on cost-effectiveness, efficiencies and compliance with OPS project management methodologies and frameworks.

General Skills

- Leads organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and Ministry funding requests.
- Gathers and develops requirements in order to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan.
- Ability to monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met.
- Experience developing and managing project schedules, deliverables, and scope.
- Ability to promote I⁢ project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies.
- Demonstrated experience directing project teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered on time and adhere to government and ministry standards.
- Extensive experience coordinating and monitoring project processes, and developing/communicating guidelines and procedures.
- Sources, selects and on-boards team members in various disciplines, clarify roles and responsibilities and set task/deliverable/performance expectations for resources that are both OPS unionized employees as well as fee for service (FFS) consultants.
- Resolves resourcing and inter-personal conflicts,



negotiates changes to resourcing, ensures knowledge is shared among team members such that project objectives and deliverables are met.
- Develops complex project budgets based on multiple funding channels and cross ministry dependencies.
- Effectively manages large project budgets and ensures a high level of fiscal control and accountability including estimates, forecasts and reconciliation/confirmation of actuals.
- Proactively identifies potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed.
- Articulates and prioritizes issues and risks at senior executive levels and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers.
- Establishes and participates in steering committee and stakeholder forums.
- Provides, project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels.
- Uses appropriate strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change during all stages of projects concept, definition, planning, implementation and close-out.
- Promotes OPS I⁢ standards and best practices for project management to facilitate control of system quality, adherence to standard methodology and the control of the use of I⁢ resources.




- Knowledge and understanding of Project Management Institute's Project Management Body of Knowledge.
- Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices.
- Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards.
- Ability to make recommendations on the acquisition of software, hardware, and technology resources.
- Experience managing and coordinating project monitoring, anticipates and troubleshoots issues, provides ongoing expertise, resolves problems and provides project effectiveness.
- Ability to identify conflict between project and functional areas and develops responses to successfully address conflict.
- Ability to handle client relationships to manage expectations, provides updates as required, identifies potential conflicts between project and functional areas.

Skills Experience and Skill Set Requirements

Core Skills - 50%

- Experience with business stakeholder management and status reporting at internal Manager, Director and Executive levels.
- Experience producing and maintaining Project Planning and Coordination documentations (Business Case, RAID log, Processes, Charter, Integrated Project Plan, Migration plans, Schedules, project kick off materials, roadmaps, etc.).
- Demonstrated experience working with IAM tools, such as Microsoft Entra ID or Oracle IAM.
- Demonstrated experience with IT migration projects, such as cloud migration and IAM modernization.
- Experience in the development of various deliverables of various roles including, but not limited to, project coordinator, release management, requirements anal

📌 Project Manager/Leader - Senior (Toronto)
🏢 Rubicon Path
📍 Toronto